Sunsets, Shenanigans and Karuta

This week, we condense some of the most impactful items that have happened since we went on break. Stadia is being shut down and that leaves a lot of questions for not only the users - who have a sunset date in mid January 2023 - but the developers that have lost a whole revenue stream. To make matters worse, they did not notify the developers before announcing the sunset over twitter. Nintndona-nigans -- CG Company Acquisition - Dynamo Pictures --- Creating rendered content with iconic Nintendo Characters --- Mocap services to nintendo --- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-completes-dynamo-pictures-acquisition-relaunches-as-nintendo-pictures -- Labor Complaint - Mackenzie Clifton --- Contractor - Aston Carter - Contract - Nintendo QA testing --- Unionization question was during a Q & A portion of a meeting with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser ---- Question asked dealt with the trend of QA unionizing across the game dev industry ---- question was not addressed, contracing firm supervisor called and said was downer question and to contact Aston Carter for such inquiries --- Month later was fired. --- Nintendo said that firing was due to disclosing confidential information ---- evidence presented was a tweet talking how all textures must have been removed because EVERYTHING was red when rendered. --- https://www.axios.com/2022/09/29/nintendo-tester-union-busting-whistleblower other points of interest --- Clifton wanted a signed apology by Bowser --- Nintnedo countered with talking to HR then offered a letter of reference --- NLRB said letter was not required as part of the settlement --Nuzelocke Stuff --- Pokemon Company officially stated that the company does not have a problem with Nuzelocke runs. --- Content creators Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang in their podcast revealed that the Pokemon Co has been against it Lewd Kerbo Card Game -- https://kotaku.com/kirby-chef-kawasaki-mini-bikini-hal-laboratory-nintendo-1849592983 -- https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20220928-15926/ -- Card game named Chef Kawasaki's Microbikini Karuta featuring Chef Kawasaki from the Kirby Series. -- Some believed that the standard atire - Naked save for an apron - is already rather raunchy -- lead to microbikini memes. -- memes gave birth to card game "Chef Kawasaki's Microbikini Karuta. -- Game is based on the Japanese card game Karuta. -- went on sale for about 890 Yen (6 bucks USD). 290 yen for digital (2 bucks) PDF/JPG -- After 2 days sales ceased as a warning from HAL Labratory was issued. -- Creating a product based on a Nintendo IP and selling it without permission is illegal to begin with (Maybe a japanese rule - I think this would fall under a transformative work) Welcome to the UDP Broadcast - Where we discuss gaming related stuff and offer somewhat uninformed opinions. Watch us LIVE on https://Twitch.tv/luminariweekly Saturdays at 22:30 UTC -5 Chapters 0:00 Intro and Topics 1:27 Stadia shutdown 23.30 Nintendo-Nanigas 48:30 Chef Kawasaki in a Micro Bikini 52:30 Final thoughts